Damn thats pretty bad news about the lens.. they really need to change their update method to help stop something like this from happening. Fingers crossed you get it back soon and we can see some images with the Ec20 and the 50-200!

HArj

Sorry to hear about your problems.

I do have to agree with Harj. In todays world, it seems totally unnecessary to have to update firmware in the way Olympus offers. As you have, unfortunately found out.